Re: [microsound] synethesia?

[john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> i wouldn't be so dismissive.
> an AV show occurs as a mixed-media performance. as such it 'means' to
> stimulate both sight and hearing.
>
> when sounds and visuals are conceived 'as a whole' i feel they carry a
> tremendous evokative power.
> one may see a relation with psychedelia, certainly, but that's not all
> there is to it.
> the best AV performances i've seen are able to provide the viewer with a
> 'means' to enter a 'world' and to be free to interpret and adjust it to
> his own.

Yes, that's great and all... but none of that is synestesia. It therefore
makes no sense to use the word synestesia when talking about it.

Oddly enough, now every time I see the word synestesia, I begin to see red.

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